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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Wikimedia Commons request for comment on musical notation files
From:       jc86035 <jc86035 () icloud ! com>
Date:       2018-11-26 13:08:28
Message-ID: D9A64035-0187-44E0-8011-531FDD7253BE () icloud ! com
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Hi all,

I'm a Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons editor (User:Jc86035 \
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jc86035>). Earlier in November I opened a \
request for comment  \
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump/Proposals#RfC:_Musical_notation_files> \
on Wikimedia Commons, proposing that several musical notation file formats \
(originally MuseScore, LilyPond and MusicXML) become uploadable on Commons, with the \
intention of eventually allowing audio and scores of some or all of the file types to \
be shown in pages like Wikipedia articles. (The MediaWiki software already has \
Extension:Score  <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Score>, based on LilyPond \
and Fluidsynth, but there are various benefits to allowing music notation to be \
stored as files. Currently notation is shown in Wikipedia articles as images or PDFs, \
or used directly through the Score extension.)

Your feedback on which file formats Commons should support would be much appreciated; \
several developers have already provided input. Currently, in addition to the \
aforementioned formats, the discussion is also evaluating MNX and MEI (of which the \
former doesn't exist yet; it's not clear to us how these two formats would interface \
and if supporting both would be redundant). If you've never edited a Wikimedia site \
before, anyone can create an account and participate in the discussion. (If \
discussion continues on the mailing lists I will link to new posts, although it would \
be preferable to have discussion all in one place.)

Best
jc86035
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